Bed-brace.



PATENTED APRLZl, 1903.-

C. A. HOWSE.

BED BRAGE.

APPLICATION nun) 00'1.24, 1902.

F0 MODEL.

WitljQSSQS Tm: NORRIS PEYERS co. morauwoq wnsumc'rom u c NITED ST T SPATENT FIC -CLAUD A. HOWSE, OF ENLOE, TEXAS,

BED-B'RACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 725,845, dated April21, 1903.

Application filed October 24, 1902. Serial No. 128,580. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, OLAUD A. HOWSE, a citizen of the United'States,residing at Enloe, in the county of Delta and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Bed-Brace, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in bed-braces.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofbed-braces and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient oneadapted to be readily applied to a bedstead and capable of being easilyoperated to strain or stretch the tensile elements to the desired degreeand of yieldingly connecting the same, whereby the parts of a bedsteadwill be firmly clamped together.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a bedstead provided with abrace constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detailsectional view illustrating the manner of confining the tensile elementsin the coils of the yieldable adjusting-screw.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

l designates a transversely-disposed yieldable adjusting-screwconstructed of a single piece of resilient wire of sufiicient strengthto enable it to stretch a pair of tensile elements 2 to the desiredtension for clamping the head and foot boards 3 and 4 of a bedsteadtightly against the side rails 5 of the same. This adjusting-screw isconstructed from a single piece of material, which is bent to form acentral circular loop 6, and the wire is then twisted at the inner sideof the loop at 7 and is then extended and reverselycoiled to form a pairof right and left hand screws, whereby when the adj usting-screw isrotated the engaged portions of the tensile elements will besimultaneously moved outward to stretch or loosen the same.

The tensile elements, which preferably consist of wires, are confined inthe coils of the opposite portions 8 of the adj usting-screw'by means ofa longitudinal rod 9,passing through outer terminals of the coiledportions of the screw,and the said rod is adapted to be readily placedin position and may be easily removed therefrom by straightening one endof it and then withdrawing from the coils. tral circular loop forms aconvenient grip or handle for enabling the yieldable adjustingscrew tobe rotated, and the resilient character of the screw forms aspring-clamp for holdingthe parts of the bedstead firmly together.

The wires constituting the tensile elements 2, although shownlongitudinally of the bedstead in the accompanying drawings, may bearranged in any other desired manner, as will be readily understood, andthe brace will be found applicable to various articles of furniture. Thehead and foot boards are provided at the corner-posts with hooks 12, towhich the ends of the wires are connected, the terminals of the wiresbeing preferably formed into eyes 13 for detachably engaging the hooks.The side rails of the bedstead are provided equidistant of their endswith inwardly-projecting hooks 14, forming eyes and receiving the wires,which are ongaged by the adjusting-screw at their centers between thesaid hooks 14.

When the adj Listing-screw is rotated for stretching the wires, thelatter will be drawn inward toward each other, and the resiliency of theadj Listing-screw will cooperate with the wires to form a spring-clampfor holding the parts of the bedstead firmly together. The

brace, which is adapted to be applied to new bedsteads as they aremanufactured, may also be'quickly connected with the side and end railsof an old one, and it will enable the same to be quickly tightened andheld firmly together. Also, it will be clear that it isexceedinglysimple and inexpensive in construction, that it will admit of thetensile elements.

being arranged in various positions, andthat the adjusting-screw isreadily operated to stretch or slacken the wires.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, thecombination with an adjusting-screw pro- The cen-.

yided with right and left hand helices, of tening tensile elements, aresilient adj ustingsile elements engaging respectively the opposcrewconsisting of a central loop and oppositely-disposed helices of thescrew. sitely-disposed coils forming right and left 2. In a device ofthe class described, the hand screws and engaging the tensile ele-- 2ocombination withayieldable adj listing-screw ments, and a rod passingthrough the coils having oppositely-wound coils forming right andconfining the tensile elements in engageand left hand helices, oftensile elements in ment with the same, substantially as deengagementwith the respective helices of the scribed. screw. In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as 2 5 IO 3. In a device of the class described, themy own I have hereto affixed my signature combination Wilha yieldableadj nsting-screw in the presence of two witnesses. having resilientcoils, of a rod extended through the coils of the screw, and tensileCLAUD HOWSE' elements held in engagement with the coils Witnesses: 15 ofthe screw by means of the rod. L. B. ROBINSON,

4. A device of the class described compris- J. F. HOLMES.

